Coming to work (as a doctor) in the UK......Basics

Might have come across lots of advice about this.This is to provide authentic information about working in UK ,to make an informed decision about the procedures you would encounter

https://www.gmc-uk.org/doctors/registration_applications/24986.asp

https://www.gmc-uk.org/doctors/plab.asp

http://www.drswamyplabcourses.co.uk/

https://www.gmc-uk.org/Getting_registered_with_the_GMC_0316.pdf_55818409.pdf

then you do the job search....

https://www.gov.uk/tier-2-general

Certificate of sponsorship

A certificate of sponsorship holds your personal details and information about the job you’ve been offered. It’s an electronic record, not a paper document. Your sponsor will give you a certificate of sponsorship reference number to add to your application.

You can only use your certificate of sponsorship reference number once. You must use it 3 months after getting it.

Happy to help if you have any queries

Good luck!!

Illegal EM course? Who is answerable?

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/illegal-pg-degrees-plague-emergency-medicine/articleshow/59044598.cms

Illegal 'PG degrees' plague emergency medicine

Rema Nagarajan| TNN | Updated: Jun 13, 2017, 08:42 PM IST
 You might shell out big bucks when wheeled into the emergency ward of a large private hospital, but do you also get the best trained doctors in emergency medicine?


Most of these hospital emergency departments are staffed with MBBS graduates lured into illegal courses that claim to be giving a master's in emergency medicine (MEM). From the number of patients they get to see, to the quality of faculty who train them, a number of questions have been raised. The Medical Council of India (MCI) has notified all such courses as illegal and hence not to be registered as additional qualification.

The MCI and the National Board of Examination (NBE) have strict criteria regarding how large a patient load an emergency department needs to start postgraduate specialisation in the discipline, and a highly competitive entrance exam to get a seat. Preying on the insecurity of those unable to clear such exams are a plethora of supposed MEM programmes offered by various hospitals that masquerade as postgraduate degree courses.

The two main MEM programmes offered include one by the Society of Emergency Medicine of India (SEMI), and the other by various corporate hospitals in conjunction with George Washington University (GWU) in the US. SEMI president Dr T S Srinath Kumar says they don't claim to give a postgraduate degree.

"Our MEM is just a certificate given by SEMI. It is the MEM given by GWU that the MCI declared illegal, not ours," he said. While he claims that SEMI-MEMs will be phased out by 2020, they started the course in 15 more hospitals last year and six more this year. Currently, about 86 centres are churning out about 350 MEMs each year. There are 79 seats for MD in emergency medicine in 28 medical colleges, and 248 DNB (Diplomate of National Board) seats for it in 50 institutions .

In the case of the MEM offered through a tie-up with GWU, the numbers have gone up from three centres to 11, with as many as 6-10 students in each centre - about 100 MEMs a year. About 74 doctors from eight centres got a GWU-MEM in 2016. Students are being charged Rs 4 lakh to 6 lakh per year as fees. Though they promote it as a postgraduate master's programme of an American university on their website, the fine print says that the 'degree' is not recognised in the US.

The MCI does not allow parallel courses in colleges with MD (postgraduate course) seats to prevent students' training from getting diluted. However, many hospitals and medical colleges running DNB courses are also running MEM courses. For instance, Peerless Hospital in Kolkata has four DNB seats, for which the requisite patient load is 6,000-10,000 annually (16-27 patients per day. It is also running the GWU-MEM with about 12 seats. So the faculty and the patient load meant to teach the 12 (4x3) DNB students is being used to teach an additional 36 MEM students since it is a three-year course. This severely limits the quality of the DNB training. This is happening in several institutions where MEM courses are being run along with DNB, though the NBE is categorical that it "does not allow concurrent administration of any programme with DNB Emergency Medicine".

Illegal courses being run parallel to legal PG degree

	DNB* seats	GWU-MEM
Baby Memorial Hospital, Kozhikode	6	6
Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences (MIMS), Kozhikode	8	10
Peerless Hospital, Kolkata	4	12
		SEMI-MEM
Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon*	4	3-8
Ananthapuri Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram*	4	3-8
Yashoda Super specialty hospital Hyderabad*	4	3-8
Yashoda Hospital, Secunderabad*	6	3-8
PD Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai*	6	3-8
Columbia Asia Hospital	2	3-8
Continental Hospital, Hyderabad	4	8
Apollo Hospital Madurai	4	3-8
Fortis Hospital, Kolkata	2	3-8
Fortis Hospital, Bangalore	4	3-8
RTIICS, Kolkata	4	3-8

*Diplomate of National Board (post graduate degree)
**SEMI data says phasing out of MEM has started in these centres

In many of the institutions running both DNB and MEM, faculty qualification too is an issue. Unlike the MCI, inspection reports of hospitals given DNB seats are not in the public domain. Hence, one does not know if the faculty counted during inspection and those shown on the hospital website are the same

On hospital websites, most of the 'faculty' in the emergency departments have qualifications like MEM or even diploma in emergency medicine, which are not qualifications recognised by the MCI, the medical regulator of the country. The NBE spokesperson told TOI: "MEM qualification has never been accepted as an eligible qualification for being DNB Emergency Medicine faculty. There is no approved faculty in any NBE accredited department with MEM qualification."

However, in MIMS, Kozhikode, which has 8 DNB seats for emergency medicine, Dr PP Venugopalan is shown as faculty for both DNB and GWU-MEM, which has 10 seats. Barring him, no other emergency department faculty has any qualification other than MEM going by the hospital website. Dr Venugopalan also does not accept that GWU-MEM is illegal. "We have filed for reversal in the MCI and we have the course running in five hospitals of our group," said Dr Venugopalan to TOI . However, MCI president Dr Jayshree Mehta told TOI that the MCI had alerted the public at large not to enrol themselves in such courses and declared these courses "unrecognised and unauthorised" and therefore "not legal".

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PLAB UK A&E and more

Hi
Anyone who is looking forward to appear for PLAB exam or looking for details regarding life in UK A&E
I am happy to help you with BASIC details
Mail me or leave a comment with your queries and I will try my best to answer you
Good luck

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Rarity increases the charm and lion - muthu comic reading continued when i was in my medical college .....reading comics on and off......rarer to get in that period as well.
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A REPLY to Gopinath of Vijay TV , a biased non medico

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What is emergency medicine

2013 ASM: Dr Cliff Reid - What a great job from ACEM Digital Media on Vimeo.

I am glad that i passed plab 2 in a very short period.Attended Dr swamy plab 2 training course at ilford uk.may 7th was my exam and i started prep on apr 3rd only.

some advice to those who are coming to uk for plab 2

first get a place near the centre to live
spareroom.co.uk  is a good website where you can search for rooms for rent and make sure you have a place closeby.I used this site and got a good room for around 480 pounds per month
My advice - accomodation at plab cnetre is expensive and have to share with many.Not for me esp when i am studying!
http://www.spareroom.co.uk/
post code you should search for the place close to plab trainer would be IG1

Join Plab trainer swamy
plab trianer is a good old centre guiding ppl to clear plab 2.you join atleast 2 months in advance of your test date.find a good partner matching your calibre and do practice again and again.practice makes a man pass plab 2
http://www.plabtrainer.co.uk/


what to listen and what not to
beware of ppl who are good repeaters and bad repeaters
some ppl who fail give you advice which is sometimes a treasure
somee ppl just misguide you
whatever is been told to you by whomsoever, what dr swamy says should be final

do mock tests
do mock tests as well as mannequin mocks as many times as you can which will build confidence and when u reach GMC for real exam you feel realxed as you get a fmiliar feel

eat well  sleep well socialise
even while preparing make sure you eat healthy  drink lots of water
every weekend go to some place to relax. remember you need a fresh mind to think well

To Manchester
plan your trip and stay at manchester well in advance


good luck to all who are about to take plab 2

happy to help if you have any qns

MCEM PREP

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EMCON

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DOCS FOR KUWAIT

Job Location: Kuwait

Dear Candidate,

We are one of the largest International healthcare placement Co. based out of New Delhi.

IIHCR is in the business of sourcing and placing healthcare professionals around the globe since 1999.

Currently we have excellent opportunity for Doctors in the Govt. Hospitals of Kuwait in the following / Specialties / Positions :

-Pediatrician
-Gynecologist (females only)
-Diabetologists
-Surgeons
-Internist
-Emergency Registrar
-Dermatologists
-Orthopedic Registrar
-Cardiologist Registrar
-ENT Registrar
-Neonatology
-ICU Registrar
-Physiatrist (Physiotherapy doctors)
-Radiologist

Eligibility :

Qualification : MBBS with MD or DNB
Experience : Minimum of 2 years post MD/ DNB experience.

Benefits :

-Excellent Tax - Free Salary
-Fully furnished family accommodation over and above the salary
-Annual air ticket to home country for self
-30 days fully paid Annual Leave
-International Private Medical Insurance
-Indemnity and Life Insurance as per labour law

If you are interested to work in Kuwait and are suitable for any of the above position,

please email your CV to dr@iihcrecruiters.com before 30 Dec. Please3 feel free to seek any further information.

Best Regards,

Pooja Khanna
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India International Healthcare Recruiters ( IIHCR )
Healthcare Division of IITR
4868/24, Second Floor
Ansari Road,Daryaganj,
New Delhi - 110002
Ph No. 011- 441563461

MOH SAUDI ARABIA

Dear Doctors,

Good Fellow Foreign Services is the leading healthcare recruitment company in India, having vast experience of 22 years in this line. We had helped realized many aspiring doctors, nurses and medical technician in fulfilling their dreams. We are the No.1 medical recruitment firm for the 'MOH .kingdom of Saudi Arabia' past 4 years.

Welcome the talented and aspiring doctors to come and apply for the upcoming 'MOH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia'. It"s a government job and openings are across all the position from 'resident to consultant' level in the entire health department. We are having opening for the following departments:

 Anesthesia
 Orthopedics
 Ophthalmology
 Cardiology
 Vascular Surgery
 Oncology
 Obs & Gynae ( Female Only)
 Dermatology
 General Surgery
 ICU/ICCU
 Pediatrics/Ped ICU/Ped cardio
 Internist/Internal Medicine or General Medicine
 Gasternology
 Nephrology
 Emergency Medicine
 Nuclear Medicine
 Infectious diseases
 Quality Control (M.B.B.S + MHA)
 Neonatology
 Pathology
 Chest Diseases/Pulmonary Diseases
 Neurosurgery

Educational Qualification:

Resident: MBBS
Sr.Resident: MBBS+ Dip
Specialist or Registrar: MS or MD
Consultant: DM, M.Ch, Fellowship

Experience Required: Minimum 2 Years exp is required in their field


Location:- Saudi Arabia

Please find the salary details below:

FOR INDIAN DEGREE HOLDERS

Resident/GP Doctors: MBBS= 4000 SR Basic + 200 SR per yr of experience (Count up to 15 yrs)
Specialist/Resident Doctors: MBBS+ Diploma = 6450 SR Basic + 330 SR Per yr of experience (Count up to 15 yrs)
Specialist Doctors: MD/MS/DNB = 8050 SR Basic + 438 SR Per yr of experience (Count up to 15 yrs)
Consultant Doctors: DM/M.CH/PH.D/MRCS/FRCS or any Equivalent = 10560 SR Basic + 576 SR Per yr of experience (Count up to 15 yrs)



FOREIGN DEGREE HOLDERS-USA/Canada/Europe/Japan/Australia/New Zealand/South Africa/Singapore/Korea/Malaysia

Specialist Doctors: Graduation+ Diploma not less than 1 yr =8395 SR Basic + 506 SR Per yr of experience (Count up to 15 yrs)
Specialist Doctors: Post Graduate or Equivalent = 13350 SR Basic + 750 SR Per yr of experience (Count up to 15 yrs)
Consultant Doctors: Doctorate/MRCS/FRCS or Equivalent = 22280 SR Basic + 960 SR Per yr of experience (Count up to 15 yrs)

The ministry has increased the salary by 20% to 50% Increment per month of the Total Salary (Basic + Per yr Exp) as Departmental Allowance,.

20% Increment for MBBS Doctors.
25% - 45% - Increment all Departments for MD/MS/DNB/MDS.
50%- Increment all Departments for DM/MCH/PhD/Any Equivalent.


BENEFITS:

Accommodation : Free Family Accommodation or 3 months Basic Salary Housing Allowance
Medical and Transportation : Free TA & Medical
Contract : 1 yr renewal contract
Vacation: 45 days paid leave per year
Benefits : 100 % Tax free salary
Note:
Public Health, Community & Family medicine, Social preventive medicine are not included. Candidates with experience in these departments may not apply.
No T.A/D.A provided to candidate for Interview purpose.
No telephonic interview or Video conferencing.
Only Personal Interview with foreign delegates.


Thanks and regards,
Zulfiquar Ali (HR)
Good Fellow Foreign Services Agency
159/1, 1st Floor
Opp. Escorts heart Hospital
Sarai Jullena
New Delhi,NCT, India 110025
Phones:-011-47122786,30 Lines
Fax:-26823273,Extn No:232
E-Mail:- overseas@goodfellow.in
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Urgent opening with leading Aviation Company for Flight Physician_Riyadh(Saudi Arabia)

Experience required for the Job: 2 - 8 years

Job Location: Saudi Arabia

Dear Candidate,

Urgent opening with leading Aviation Company for Flight Physician_Riyadh(Saudi Arabia)

Designation: Flight Physician Emergency Medicine
Job Location:Riyadh(Saudi Arabia)
Qualification: MBBS, MD or DO degree.

Job Description: Provides, supervises, and manages patient care of beneficiaries to include flying and special operational duty personnel. Examines, diagnoses, and treats initial & acute phase of illnesses and injuries. Directs emergency & related patient services.

Job Prerequisites:
• Must be graduated from a recognized medical school possessing MBBS, MD or DO degree.
• Post graduate professional experience of 2 or more years is preferred.
• Must be verified with letter of employment from previous employers
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken, Arabic is advantage
• Computer literacy level is required, proficient is preferred
• Fellowship of Royal College of U.K. or Republic of Ireland, American Board, Canadian Board, Fachartz (Germany), Scandinavian Board Qualification or the internationally recognized qualification, Arab Board or Saudi Board in Emergency Medicine.
• Current valid certifications in the following:-
o Basic Life Support
o Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) or equivalent (ITLS)
o Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
o Pediatric Life Support (PALS)
• Current valid license to practice license to practice Medicine recognized by the Saudi Council for Health Specialties.

Benefits:
• (2 years) renewable contract
• Vacation: 30 days every year.
• Round trip air ticket to domicile every year.
• Private accommodation in a compound with social facilities
• Health insurance

If you are interested kindly send your CV as soon as possible.

(vrindaconsultants@gmail.com, Sec-27, NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh - 201301)